Harry P.

You better believe it, buddy! In Chicago we have rampant political corruption, insanely high taxes, and the best food on the planet! You haven't lived until you've had a Chicago-style hot dog and fresh-cut fries. Or a Chicago-style deep-dish pizza. Or a Chicago-style Italian Beef. Or a Chicago-style Polish. Man oh man, it's a wonder I don't weigh 300 pounds!

Sorry, Tom... had to hide your post. Did you actually watch the video you posted? Not exactly in compliance with forum rules.

Thanks, Bill. Yeah, the fun part of model building for me is taking a simple kit and making it look decent.

I really went around in circles in my head as far as what colors to use on the body. At first I was going to go with a yellow lower half and black upper... then black and red, then finally I decided on keeping the bottom part "wood." The plastic looks pretty much like wood veneer in that scale... it has a visible "grain" to it. I'm thinking that under a few coats of clear it'll look reasonably close to a wood veneer. Trying to cover the lower half with either fabric or leather would have been a nightmare. I'm going to upholster the seat with dark red velour fabric, and the interior will be a matching dark red–I bought some heavy, stiff colored paper in the scrapbooking aisle at Hobby Lobby that I will use to cut the individual interior panels from. The interior floor will be stained wood, and the roof of the coach will be satin black. And oh yeah... I will be adding a scratchbuilt wooden trunk out back to replace the (too small IMO) kit supplied trunk.

On the inside, the kit part has engraved "woodgrain" on it, but as we all know, "nothing looks more like real wood than real wood," so I added that to the inside of the front wall... I'm replacing all the thick kit glass with thinner clear styrene sheet, an easy fix because all the coach glass is flat, or in the case of the rear window, curved... but only in one direction, not a compound curve... Things are looking a little messy at this point, but once I paint all the window trim and install the interior panels, all of the edges will be sharp and well-defined.

I decided to go with a yellow upper and "wood" lower on the coach body. Then I used Tamiya tape to mask off the window trim and painted that black. This is the coach body front wall...

Here are the new, fake hinges. Remember, I'm gluing the doors shut, so they don't have to work... just have to look correct.

At least he didn't die at 27... like Jimi Hendrix, Curt Cobain, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, etc...

Mmmmmmm...

Well... it's no In and Out Burger...

Just goes to show ya what doing drugs will eventually cost you. Too bad the idiot threw away his life. My favorite STP song...

But at least you learned something...

Interesting that they held 3.2 ounces. Today the cans are listed as 3 ounces. How did they decide on an odd amount like 3.2?

Can't be 36 inches. That's the size of a Pocher kit box (1/8 scale). The ruler must be in cm.

There is one thing I see that tells me REAL.

This week's subject is a 1927 Tatra T12. Who got it right... Foxer dw1603 bobthehobbyguy Dominik

Impressive.

Wow. Never have seen that kit. Ever. Ya learn sumthin new every day!

Originally there were two 999s... one was yellow, the other was red. Mechanically pretty much identical. I don't think either one still exists.

Steve, you're right. Geography makes the difference. Here in Chicago, Men Without Hats had ONE song that ever got any airplay... the one I posted. Same with Dexie's Midnight Runners (Come On, Eileen)... that ONE song got airplay here, no others

You would think so, but there aren't any in the kit. I'll have to scratchbuild them.

Every door needs a surface to close against. Even though I'm gluing these doors shut, I still need a surface to glue them to, so I added some styrene strip all around the openings. If I had kept the opening door feature, this is what they would have closed against. Without this, the doors would just flop in the opening like a swinging door, with nothing to shut against.

Time to get started on the coach part. The doors are supposed to open, but I'm gluing them shut for several reasons. One, the hinges are not correct and very toy-like and unrealistic (they are "dog leg" type hinges that would protrude into the inside of the coach). Two, either the doors or the coach body or both are pretty warped, and neither door fits well into its opening, and three, the windows on the coach body are so big that any detail that you want to see inside the coach will be easily seen... no need for the doors to open. First up is to snip off the molded-in door hinges... The right side door's molding doesn't align with the rest of the molding on the body... The fix was to remove about 1/16 inch from the bottom of the door, and add that same amount to the top of the door using styrene strip. That lowers the door in the opening, and now the raised molding aligns...

Getting pretty close to finished on the main part of the car. Just a few things to still add. After I removed the molded-in hood hinge, I replaced it with a length of brass rod that I rolled under my X-acto blade to create the detail of the individual leaves of the hinge. The hinge isn't real, though, it's just for show. Remember, this one is getting the hood glued shut.